3 ready-made review sets for this topic, 41 questions in all, all standard level, to play as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Worldview that believes technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems?
Topic 1 sets up the ideas the rest of the course uses. Perspectives: how values and worldviews shape the way people see environmental issues, and how values surveys measure them. Systems: storages and flows, transfers and transformations, open and closed systems, models, feedback loops, tipping points and resilience. Sustainability: what it means for the environment, society and the economy, environmental justice, and the indicators and models used to measure and plan for it, from ecological footprints to the planetary boundaries model, doughnut economics and the circular economy.
Play this set opens the set in splycr, where you can read every question and host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account, and students join with the code on the board. A free account lets you copy a set and edit it.
The questions come from the Biology by Bradford flashcard bank. Each one plays as multiple choice, and the wrong options are other answers from the same set.
ESS has had a higher level course since the guide first assessed in 2026. Sets marked SL suit every ESS student, because higher level students study the standard level content too. Sets marked HL cover the additional higher level material in topics 2 to 8; Topic 1 has none, so its sets are all SL. The three HL lenses (environmental law, economics and ethics) have no sets yet.
Worldview that believes technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems?
Answer: Technocentrism
A flow involving a change in the location of energy or matter?
Answer: Transfer
A system that exchanges both energy and matter across its boundary?
Answer: Open system
Feedback that inhibits the original process, counteracting change and stabilizing the system?
Answer: Negative feedback loop
The minimum amount of change within a system that will destabilize it, causing it to reach a new equilibrium?
Answer: Tipping point
Meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own (Brundtland, 1987)?
Answer: Sustainable development
Area of land/water needed to sustain a population's resource use and absorb its waste?
Answer: Ecological footprint
Model identifying nine Earth-system processes and the human disturbance limits beyond which abrupt changes may occur?
Answer: Planetary boundaries model
Raworth's framework for an economy meeting everyone's needs within ecological limits, bounded by a social foundation and ecological ceiling?
Answer: Doughnut economics model
Every set plays in all eight modes. These two fit this topic best.
Topic 1 is built on pairs that look alike under pressure: transfer and transformation, open and closed, positive and negative feedback. A wrong answer heals the boss, so a class that guesses loses ground.
The answers are short terms (system, model, resilience, biocapacity), so the bomb moves fast and every student answers many times. Nobody is knocked out: the holder just loses points when it goes off.